Birth: NULL/NULL/1912 Death:NULL/NULL/1974
Born in Haifa in 1912; joined the Palestinian Communist Party (PCP) at an early age and was put in charge of its weekly publication Al-Ittihad; translated and published books in Jaffa as early as 1935; was imprisoned by the British authorities from 1940-42 for his political activism; upon release, left the PCP and was recruited to a small Trotskyist movement by Yigael Gluckstein (later better known as Tony Cliff); returned to the PCP after the movement collapsed in the late 1940s; played a leading role in PCP’s monthly literary journal, Al-Jaddid in the early 1950s; was placed under house arrest by Israel after the War of 1967; joined the Trotskyist movement again after 1968 when it re-emerged under the name Matzpen in Israel; moved to London in 1970; was the author of numerous articles and pamphlets; also translated some of the classics of Marxism into Arabic; died in 1974.
